Everywhere you look there's construction in downtown Detroit. Cranes towering over one block, scaffolding covering the next. This is widely viewed as progress, after decades of urban decline in the city.
In the neighborhoods, though, it’s a different story — and a reminder that progress is measured by perspective.
The same probably can be said for Detroit’s professional sports teams as they — and their fans — continue to break ground on rebuilding projects around town, all part of a Reconstruction Era the likes of which we haven’t seen in generations.
But this needs to be said as well.